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Foil 23 Fundamental Parallelism Assumption in HPF

From CPS615-Align and Distribute in HPF Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 1 October 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 20.1
1 An operation on two or more data object is likely to be carried out much faster if they all reside in the same processor
  • i.e. minimize communication
2 it may be possible to carry out many such operations concurrently if they can be performed on different processors
  • data parallelism
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